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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Bertolt Brecht

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

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